Lost boy | dnf

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Tw: mentions of panic / panic attack! Skip this chapter and I'll post a recap in the comments.

George's POV:

I woke up feeling tired, remembering the events of last night as I see my clothes discarded on the floor next to Dreams. I giggled and rolled over to Dream, he was still peacefully asleep. I watched as his chest rose and fell with every breath, his mouth slightly parted letting air exit and his face where freckles dotted around his nose and cheeks. He was so pretty.

His eyes started to open and he caught me staring. I looked away and he laughed at me, grabbing my waist and cuddling into me. This time, his head was on my chest.

We sat like this for thirty more minutes and then we decided to get ready for the day. I hopped in the shower first and then waited for him to finish his while getting ready.

We decided to go into town for breakfast. We stumbled down the stairs and out the reception. We were greeted with comforting heat and a slight breeze to ensure we weren't too hot.

We started walking across the promenade, glancing at each restaurant trying to find one we wanted. Dream settled on a small cafe on the corner which served a large variety of different breakfast foods which Dream and I both fancied.

We sat in a booth beside the window so that we could look out at the beach while eating. Dream sat across from me, holding my hand while we waited for the menu.

The waitress came up to us and greeted us with a friendly smile. She took our drink orders and let us have a few minutes to decide on our food.

I decided on a full English breakfast.

'Dream, trust me it's really nice you should get it too.' I said to him, trying to convince him to also get it.

He caved in and also got the full English breakfast like I knew he would. Hopefully it is as good as it is back home.

The waitress came up to us again, this time she seemed a little confused.

'I thought I recognised you two from somewhere so I went into the back to see.' She pulled out an article on her phone, 'This online magazine posted an article on the pride event yesterday. Is this you two?'

We both looked at her phone and then each other, laughing and smiling. I can't believe we're front page of a magazine.

'Yes that's us. What is the magazine?' I asked while showing my excitement.

She told us that it was a very popular magazine. The Instagram page itself had over one million followers. They focus on pride events and diversity. I can't believe that's us.

Dream and I pulled up the page on our phone and we read through the comments on the post which had the magazine advertised.

'Those two are amazing. Glad to see the younger generation showing their love.'

'Love is love. Amazing magazine!'

'Who are these two?! Time to get them a modelling career.'

We smiled as we read them all, everyone was so supportive and it made us extremely happy. The picture itself was so much better than I expected, we both looked good and you could see the passion in our kiss through the picture.

Dream commented on the photo and said it was him and I, while tagging my account. Not even two seconds afterwards, my phone was blowing up with follows and dm's. I laughed as we heard the Instagram notifications rapidly blowing up our phones. At this point, the waitress had sat down in our booth with us with a big grin on her face. We learnt that her name was Cassidy.

I got a notification telling me that the Instagram page had tagged us in the photo and the caption. I showed Dream and Cassidy and we all laughed with joy. I couldn't believe this was happening.

Suddenly terror stripped all of my happiness away. My parents. They have Instagram accounts, what if they see the photos of me. I looked at my tagged photos and there it was, the same photo plastered on my profile for everyone to see. My breathing started getting heavier and I felt my lungs gasping out for breath.

'George? What's wrong.' Dream said while holding onto both of my hands to ground me. I couldn't reply to him, my body was frozen still while shaking out of control. I could feel my back heating up and my eyes watering, I had to get out of the cafe without making a scene but my legs felt as though they wouldn't hold my body.

Dream and Cassidy could tell that I needed to get out of the cafe so they both helped me out into the back room. They carried me to a bench outside in the shade and Cassidy went inside to get me some water.

I tried to speak to Dream but my words were broken and quiet. 'My parents don't know' is all I managed to say. Just from that sentence, Dream understood what I meant and pulled me close into a hug.

Cassidy came back with the water and left again to give us space and continue serving customers.

I calmed my breathing down to match Dreams and finally spoke again. 'They're going to see the picture. I don't know how they'd react to it Dream.' I said with tears threatening to escape.

'You can hide them from your profile for now until you're ready. George you can't change who you love, they need to accept you for you. My mom overreacted when I first came out but now she's supportive.' He said, trying to calm me down.

'The George they know and love is the same George who loves boys. That doesn't make you any different from before, you're just a person loving another person. But that other person happens to be a boy as well. You are amazing George.'

I hugged and told him we could go back inside and eat our meals. I couldn't stomach much so I gave the parts I didn't eat to Dream, who very much enjoyed his.

We finished up eating and went to the beach for a while. We decided to head home rather early since we had school the next day and still needed to finish off our art projects which were due tomorrow.

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